Hi Casull
The first story in this thread dealt with Confederate guerillas and their ammo dump. I posted a story about German immigrants, civilians, lynched by Confederates simply because they would not take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy. (I pasted part of that story again below.) Now what evidence do you have of widespread killing of women and children civilians by federal troops do you have? Killing of civilians is questionable even in wartime. Do you think it is ever justified? Was Hiroshima justified?
Ironfoot
Warta calls the mass emigration of Germans to America after a 1848 revolution “ the first German brain drain to the United States.”
That year, many German intellectuals gathered in Europe hoping to create a German state modeled after the United States, complete with its Constitution and Bill of Rights. The Prussian Kaiser sent his army to quash the effort, Warta said, and many of the people involved fled to America. Some found their way to Minnesota and founded the German city of New Ulm.
Other so- called “1848- ers” settled in southern states, where they found life much more difficult when the Civil War erupted, Warta said. In addition to being against slavery, Germans also take the swearing of an oath very seriously. These people had taken a vow to support the Union when they arrived in this country and were not in favor of secession, he said.
As such, they refused to fight against Union soldiers.
The combination of beliefs and culture led to the lynching of a total of 150 German men and boys in Fredericksburg, Texas, when they refused to take a new oath to the Confederacy, Warta said. In Comfort, Texas, 36 young German-heritage men decided to escape across the Rio Grande, make their way to New York and join the Union army. A traitor learned of the plans, Warta said, and informed the Confederate Army. All 36 were killed and later buried in a mass grave.Warta said a monument to the men was placed at the gravesite, with the words “ Treue der Union,” or True to the Union, engraved on it.
